Matrix-setting and line-casting machine.



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MATRIX SETTING AND LINE CASTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 14, 1910.

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HEINRICH DEGENER, 0F BERLIN, GERMANY.

MATRIX-SETTING AND LINE-CASTING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 17, 1911.

Application filed July 14, 1910. Serial No. 571,935.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that L'HEINRICH Deceiver, of 26 Hollmannstrasse, Berlin, German Empire, manager, having invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Matrix-Setting and Line-Casting Machines, do hereby declare that the following is an exact specification of the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in or modificationof the invention described inapplication S erial No. 482,845 which refers to a matrix setting and line casting 1nachine in which several kinds of matrices are used, and the sorting of the single kinds of type from each other is effected so that the matrices are pushed laterally apart by a .railway switch-like device, then taken'up by separate recesses by pins, whereupon the single kinds are drawn apart and supplied to suitable distributing bars, and a device has also been already shown in which the receivi'ng pins can be at the same time utilized as sorting bars.

This invention relates to a further development of the invention described in the prior application, according to which the sorting of the matrices is effected. already while they are being pushed out of the socalled elevator during the transfer to the rails carrying the matrices to the magazine,

the said rails or bars being at the same time utilized as receiving bars.

A construction according to this invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which' Figure 1 1s a front elevation, elevation, partly in section, Fig. 3 a plan and Fig. 4 a side elevation in the position after the receiving bars ,have already moved slightly upward. F ig. 5 is afront elevation of a part of the machine containing a construction according to this invention and Fig.6 is a side elevation to Fig. 5. Figs. 7 and S are two matrices.

The matrix line consisting of matrices a and spacers b, is raised in the known manner after the casting of the line, brought to the so-called second elevator and thence pushed in the-known manner out of the first ele-- vator on to the second elevator provided with lifting bars 6 and f, by which it is brought in the known manner to the distributing bars 1' and s (Figs. 5 and The lover a of the lifting bars is of the known construction; the front' portion of the same Fig. 2 a side is shown in Figs. 1 and 2, but in place of the lifting bar used in the known constructions, .having a triangular.cross-section and ribs corresponding to the distributing teeth according toany invention, there is provideda yoke or shackle d on which are niountcd two liftingbars c and by two bars 9 and are always pressed apart (see Fig. 4:) by a spring h placed between them on the barn To the machine frame itself are secured two hornsc' which, during the sinking of the lifting bars 6 and f for the purpose of receiving the matrices, into the position shown in Fig. 2, act in front and i at the back on thc'lift-ing bars 6 and and bring them nearer to each other, the springs 7L belng compressed.- In that position, as

-shown in Fig. 2, the matrices are pushed.

out of the elevator onto the lifting bars. The front end of the lifting bars is provided with a beveled face 71:, in the same manner as the sortingbars in the said prior application, and also the matrices of the different ing their recesses away from. each other according to the side on which the recesses or notches are situated. By this arrangemcnt the sorting device of the prior appli cation is foi-n'ied by the one end of the lifting bars. In order to prevent the spacers b which are in the elevator in the position shown in Fig. 1, that is tosay with their lateral lugs at a higher level than the upper edge of the matrices, from being also seized by the lifting bars, the spacers are guided from the elevator to their magazine in a broken line,

that is to say, they are first guided with their lugs into. a downward conduit m tosuch an extent thattheir upper lugs are lower than the lowest position of the lifting bars, and only then they are guided in a rectilinear conduit it toward the space magazine. Thus it is possible to raise thesorted out matrices pushed onto the lifting bars, while leaving the spacers in their place in order to enable them to be guided from here into the space -1nagazine without alteration. 1

After the matrices have been transferred to the lifting bars, the lever c is again raised in the known manner, and the two f. The latter are guided ing bars with thematrices thus pushed apart, 3

arrive in front of the distributing bars proper 'r and 8 (Figs. 5, t3), and the matrices can then be pushed on the latter for the purose of distrilmtin them amon the various p b 23 i magazines. This arrangement is an improvement on the arrangement described in the prior application, as it is now no longer necessary to insert in front of the distributing bars proper the railway switch-like device for sorting the matrices. In that way space is economized, and moreover, the double movement of the slide pushing the matrices from the lifting bars first through the sorting mechanism and, after the pulling apart, on to the distributing bars, which movement takes up a great deal of time, is avoided.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be perforn'ied, I declare that what I claim is:

1'. In a matrix setting and line casting machine in combination several fonts of matrices each font being provided with recesses, a lifting device bringing the matrix line to the distributing mechanism and containing lifting bars upon which the matrix line pushed, one lifting bar for each font of matrices and a sorting device engaging with the matrix recesses and dividing the matrix line into different fonts while being pushed onto the lifting bars.

2. In a matrix setting and line casting machine in combination several fonts of matrices each font being provided with reccsses, a lifting device bringing the matrix line to the distributing mechanism and con taining lift ig bars, one for each font of matrices provided at one end with a sorting device engaging with the matrix recesses and dividing the matrix line into differentfonts.

In a matrix setting and line casting machine in cmnbination several fonts of mat- "rites each font being provided with rceesscs, a lifting device bringing the matrix lineto the distributing mechanism and con taining lifting bars, one for each font of matrices provided at one end with a sorting device engaging with the matrix recesses and dividing the matrix line into different fonts and means for automatically moving the lifting bars from and to each other.

4. 111,21 matrix setting and line casting machine in combination several fonts of matrices each font being provided with recesses, a lifting device adapted to re' ceive the matrix line for the purpose of conveying the same to the distributing mech anism and containing lifting bars, onefor gach font of matrices projided at one end with a sorting device engaging with the met trix recesses and dividing the matrix line into different fonts and means for automati cally bringing the said lifting bars nearer to each other into the position required for sorting during the sinking to the receiving position.

5. In a matrix setting and line cast ing machine in combination several fonts of matrices each font being provided with recesses, a lifting device adapted to receive the matrix line for the purpose of conveying the same to the distributing mechanism and containing lifting bars, one for each font of matrices provided at one end with a sorting device engaging with the matrix recesses and dividing the matrix line into different fo'nts, means for automatically bringing the said lifting bars nearer to each other into the position required for sorting during the sinking to the receiving position and means for moving them apart during the upward movement. i

(3. In a. matrix setting and line casting machine in combination several fonts of matrices each font being provided with recesses, a lifting device bringing thematrix line to the distributing mechanism and containing lifting bars which descend to reeach font of matrices provided at one end with a sorting device engaging with the ma trix recesses and dividing the matrix line into different fonts, horns arranged on the frame of the machine acting on the descending lifting bars and bringing them nearer to each other and means for moving them apart.

machine in combination several fonts of matrices ach font being provided with re ceases, a lifting device bringing the matrix line to the distributing mechanism and containing lifting bars which descend to receive the matrix line, one lifting bar for each font of 'n'iatrices provided at one end with a sortingdevi e engaging with the matrix recesses and dividing the matrix line into different fonts. horns arranged on the frame of the machine acting on the descending lifting has; and bringing them nearer to each other and springs moving them away from each other during the rising of the lifting device.

8. In a matrix setting and line casting machine in combination a matrix line consisting of spacers having lugs and matrices, said matrices having recesses, a liftingdevice to which the matrix line is transferred, said lifting device containing lifting bars engaging the matrix recesses and means for guiding the spacersduring the transfer of the line to the lifting devlceto carry their lugs beneath the lifting bars.

9. In a matrix setting. and lineicasting ceive the matrix line. one lifting bar for 'TfIn a matrix setting and line casting machine in combination a matrix line consisting of spucers'hnving lugs and matrices, Mid matrices having recesses, n lifting (1erii-e to which the matrix line is transferred, mil lifting device containing lifting bars engaging the matrix recesses and a guide \\;1 for guiding the spacers during the transfer of the line to the lifting device downward until their lugs are below the Ilifting bars, so that the matrices can be freely removed from the line upward.

In witness whereof I have hereunderset my hand in presence of two witnesses.

HEINRICH DEGF'NER. \Vitnesses I'I-ENRY HAsrER, \YoLnEMAR HAUPT. 

